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Decimated and beaten. With all the dust settled (sorry) from the end of Infinity War, this is how Avengers: Endgame begins for earth’s mightiest heroes. After 21 previous films and 11 years building to this point in the MCU, the expectations for Endgame are undoubtedly huge and theories on how…

Having disbanded their cinematic universe, instead deciding to focus more on the standalone films for their array of superheroes, allowing them space to breathe and not be under pressure to have everything build to something major, the DCEU picked themselves up off the floor with Aquaman. After the disaster that…

Riding on the wave of success Get Out has provided him with since 2017, Jordan Peele returns with Us, a psychological horror that promises to get under your skin even more than his debut effort managed to. Peele showed innovation aplenty with Get Out, the social commentary apparent in the…

With the 21st feature film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios have their first female-led superhero film in Captain Marvel. This is something that should be celebrated but we unfortunately live in a world where internet trolls try and trash a film before it’s even released, the most ludicrous…

Every year, we get a number of films that test our patience and offer next to nothing in terms of quality, becoming infamous in the process. To some they’ll be the best films of the year however, for me, these are the ten films that nearly put me to sleep.…

When Adam McKay moved away from making stright-up comedies like Step Brothers and The Other Guys, the last thing I was expecting him to start making was more serious biographical comedy-dramas. With The Big Short, he showed he could handle something a little more serious while telling the tale of…

M Knight Shyamalan is not one to shy away from involving a twist or two in his films. Back in 2016, he shocked the whole world with the ending to Split, a film that seemed to standalone from all his other films. That was until Bruce Willis’ David Dunn, a…

It’s safe to say director Yorgos Lanthimos has been pretty hit or miss for me, The Lobster leaving me bored stiff but The Killing of a Sacred Deer leaving me in a trance like state. Both were pretty out-there so I went into The Favourite expecting more of the same…

Another year, another remake from Hollywood, this time in the shape of Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born. The third remake of the Frederic March and Janet Gaynor starring 1937 original, following the James Mason and Judy Garland 1954 and Kris Kristofferson and Barbra Streisand 1976 starring remakes, sees Bradley…

Twenty-five years ago, Steven Spielberg created movie magic with Jurassic Park, a film that redefined the blockbuster, becoming a worldwide phenomenon in the process. Thanks to 2015’s Jurassic World, a film that smashed all sorts of box-office records, the franchise is well and truly alive, and the reason why dinosaurs…